1. Safe Routes To School Improving Health, Safety and Transportation Lenexa, KS

2. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Today’s Agenda  Introductions  Follow up from last meeting  Parent, Student, & Teacher Surveys  Walkability & Bikability Checklists  Brief Safe Routes To School (SRTS) intro.  Create Walking Audits END

3. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC SRTS Planning Timeline March – Applied for Planning Grant August – Planning Grant Awarded October – Walk To School Day October – SRTS Kick-Off Meeting (#1) Intro, vision, goals, assign tasks November – Meeting #2 Walking Audits of each school 2008:

4. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC SRTS Planning Timeline Spring 2009 – Meeting #4 Develop alternatives. Spring 2009 – Meeting #5 Present draft SRTS Plan. April or May Final SRTS Plan delivered. January 2009 – Meeting #3 (Community Mtg.) Present data results & solicit feedback. END

5. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Rapids’ SRTS Vision & Goal  Vision: Encourage parents to have their children walk or bike to school safely— all year round.  Goal: Have 10% more children walking and biking to school by 2010.

6. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Fewer kids are biking and walking. More parents are driving.  1969: 42% walked  2001: 16% walked (CDC, 2005)

7. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC What caused the shift?

8. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC What caused the shift? Students who live within 1 mile and walk or bike: 1969: 87% 2001: 63% (CDC, 2005) END

9. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC SRTS Walking Audit  What is it? Task Force assessment of walking conditions within ¼ mile of each school.  Why use audits? Physically makes people aware of local conditions, and local behaviors.  How to create audits?

10. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  Review your map and legend.  Start with the assumption that your Walking Audit area (quadrant) has sidewalks.  Check out this sample:

11. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit Note: A 10 was overgrown and no signs existed at either end.

12. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  What does overgrown look like? Branches that obstruct your view to walk.

13. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  What kind of signs am I looking for? Official designations.

14. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  What does an un-even sidewalk look like?

15. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  What does an un-even sidewalk look like?

16. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  What does a broken sidewalk look like?

17. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  NOT a broken sidewalk.

18. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  NOT a broken sidewalk.

19. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  This is a broken sidewalk.  But a wheelchair has no problems crossing this.

20. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  This is a broken sidewalk.  But a wheelchair has no problems crossing this.

21. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  This IS a broken and un-even sidewalk.  A wheelchair will have problems using this section.

22. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  Broken sidewalk.  A wheelchair will have problems using this section.

23. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  A missing ramp?  A wheelchair cannot use this.

24. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  No ramp.  A wheelchair cannot use this.

25. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  Broken ramp.  A wheelchair cannot use this.

26. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  Accessible ramp.  A wheelchair can use this.

27. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  Make notes on map.  An alley is narrow, and has no sidewalks

28. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  Safely cross streets. “I-3”

29. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit  Behavior Notes at student departure

30. Additional Content Added by NCWRPC SRTS Walking Audit  Drive attentively.  Watch out for children.